A FB friend acquaintance has posted pics of "Her new baby" that she is getting in a week or so from a work colleague. Including pictures of the cage she has set up at home. She has gone all out and must have bought every monkey toy out there and the cage isn't tiny or anything. But it's not huge either.
I was looking at the pics and just felt so sorry for the wee thing. It's a marmoset monkey, tiny, clasped onto it's mummy in the pictures. No idea that it's going to be taken from her very soon and never see another monkey again for the rest of it's life...
She has children and I guess it will get lots of attention. I still just don't think monkeys should be kept as pets. Really doesn't sit right with me at all. I read that they are very hard to look after properly and 99/100 times they end up aggressive in adulthood due to not being brought up naturally.
I see a very sad future for this wee thing.
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Sanctimummy · 21/08/2013 23:07
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